Why Watch it Today?: Film critic Roger Ebert was born today in 1942. Although Ebert is most known as a critic, he also collaborated with legendary smut film director Russ Meyer, first onBeyond the Valley of the Dolls, then on today’s movie and Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens. He was even slated to work on the disastrous Sex Pistols vehicle Who Killed Bambi?, the few filmed segments of which were folded into The Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Although Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a better, more coherent film than Up!, Up! features the same sense of humor, particularly the exaggerated, verbose dialogue exchanges delivered at a fast clip (“Taste the black sperm of my vengeance” remains a personal favorite).